Nice, a few small programs (of which on is for *nix) which nobody heared of. I'll drop PaintShopPro and PhotoShop immediatly now
. (kuddos for Opera which is going to support it though). But "so much marketing"? Where? sure, on their own sites and fan sites/blogs, nowhere else though. They once had a kind of animated 3D vector based graphic format or something (forgot the name) in the early days which they also claimed to be the new graphical format of the web and a lot of other blahblah and "marketing", just like it is now. Nobody used it, except for some few die hards for a short time. It died out and evolved in the current vector formats you can use. However, even those aren't used by anybody. Hence my sceptisism. Though, the backward compatibility is a very big plus and may just be the thing to make it succesfull, but still, nothing new...
Anyways, I keep on being sceptic about all this untill next year or so. I'm curious how much it is being used, supported and talked about by then. It wont be very popular if it isn't going to be supported by most of the graphical related programs, including all browsers. Because, other than some novelity, what is the use of adding an animated PNG while you still need to check for compatibilty and eventually providing another animated format for those browsers which don't support it... You might as well just use something which is supported by all to begin with and to keep things short and simple.
But if it turns out to be used all over the place in a year's time, I'll "WHOOHOO" also
(and eat my hat or something....
)... until then: "pfff"....
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